Food distribution in Paradise Friday

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The Community Action Agency of Butte County, Inc. said on Tuesday it will hold food distribution events this week in Paradise and Yankee Hill. It is conducted by the CAA North State Food Bank where volunteers will distribute food at no cost to those attending the event.

The events to be held are:

*March 25, at Pines Yankee Hill Hardware in Concow from 9 a.m. to noon or

until food supplies run out.

*March 27, at Paradise Methodist Church at 6722 Clark Rd, Paradise from

9 a.m. to noon or until food supplies run out.

“We’ve organized a drive-through event using pre-boxed food to help protect those in need of food and our volunteers to the maximum extent.” Tom Dearmore, CAA Community Services Manager for the North State Food Bank, said in a press release.

Anyone attending should be in a vehicle and follow the traffic flow guides.

County to build emergency tents

Butte County General Services said on Tuesday that it will construct and test the county’s emergency tents this week.

The goal, it said in a press release, is to check the structural integrity of each tent, ensuring functionality in the event they are needed for the COVID-19 response in Butte County.

They will be built on the east lawn of the Old County Hospital, located in Oroville at 2279 Del Oro. The tents are tentatively scheduled to go up on Thursday afternoon, weather permitting.

The county says that the emergency tents can be used for a variety of needs in response to COVID-19, including storage space for COVID-19 supplies. They may also be used to isolate COVID-19 patients in the event of a medical surge, where the capacity to treat patients at hospitals exceeds their number of beds and space.

Butte County Public Health owns the tents as part of their Emergency Preparedness program. General Services is assisting the Health Department with this construction as a function of the Department Operations Center, which has been activated since February 12th for COVID-19.